I was invited by Edmund’s Trust to create a new piece in 2024 for use in an ecclesiastical setting, to join a growing portfolio of pieces composed in memory of Edmund Bridges. Earlier in the year I had attended a service at New College Oxford, and the Dean read as a prayer a translation of Hildegard’s Sequence for the Holy Spirit, and I knew immediately that these inspiring words would be a good starting point for the new piece. I’m grateful to Dr Venetia Bridges for supplying the translation wh...